588 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of 1906, with the duly constituted officers of the Children's
Playground Association (Division Eight, United Women of
Maryland), may, with the written consent of the said officers,
be transferred to and continued in the Children's Playground
Association of Baltimore City, a body corporate.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 54.

AN ACT to add a section to article 4 of the Public Local Laws
of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Charter"
and "Miscellaneous Local Laws," to be known as section 6A,
providing for acquisition by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, under certain conditions, by condemnation, of the
absolute and unqualified fee simple title to land or of all the
right, title and interest of a person or persons interested
therein, so that the said land shall not revert.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
article 4 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of
Baltimore," sub-title "Charter" and "Miscellaneous Local
Laws," as the same was enacted by chapter 123 of the Acts of
1898; said new section to follow section 6, and to be known as
section 6A, and to read as follows:

6A. Whenever the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
shall condemn any land for a street, square, lane, alley, bridge
or its approaches, or reservoir, or for an esplanade, Boulevard,
park way, park grounds or public reservation around, adjacent,
opposite or in proximity, or leading to a public building or
buildings, or land adjoining such esplanade, boulevard, park
way, park grounds, or public reservation as authorized by the
next preceding section, or for a schoolhouse, engine house;
courthouse or market, or shall condemn any land for the pur-
pose of erecting thereon any building, structure or improvement
of any description, intended for a public or municipal use or
uses, in all such cases the absolute and unqualified fee simple
title to such land, or, when the proceeding is in personam, all
the right, title and interest of the owner or owners who are
made parties to the proceeding, if they should not be the owners
of the entire fee simple title, shall be condemned and acquired,
so that neither the said land nor any interest therein, shall
under any circumstances revert to the person or persons who